Starting the Administration Console
Using the Administration Console
Creating User Profiles and SGD Administrators
How to Add an SGD Administrator
Adding Applications to Webtops
Creating and Assigning an Application Object
How to Create an Application Server Object
How to Create an Application Object
How to Assign an Application Object
How to Shadow a User's Application Session
Controlling the SGD Enhancement Module
Controlling the SGD Enhancement Module for Microsoft Windows
Controlling the SGD Enhancement Module for UNIX and Linux Platforms
The webtop lists the applications and documents you access through SGD, including the SGD administration tools.
The webtop lists some sample applications that the SGD installation program found on the host so that you can start using SGD.
To run an application, click its link on the webtop, as shown in
An Application Link on a Webtop.
When you start an application, you might be asked for a user name and password. This is authentication information for the application server which is running the application. These details can be cached securely so you do not need to enter them more than once for each application server.
SGD Administrators configure how applications appear. Some applications might appear full-screen with no window decoration, and others in a window that behaves in the same way as a window on the client device.
When an application is running, a triangle appears in front of the application's
name on the webtop and a number appears in brackets after it. The
session toolbar also appears below the application name, as shown in The Session Toolbar.
The number in brackets is the number of separate instances of the application you have started. SGD Administrators configure how many simultaneous instances of an application that you can run.
Some applications can be configured to keep running even when they are not displayed. These are “resumable” applications. To close an application's window without ending the application, you suspend the application. To display the window again and start using the application, you resume the application.
There is a separate session toolbar for each running instance of the application, which you use as follows:
Click the Suspend button to suspend an application session
Click the Resume button to resume an application session
Click the Cancel button to end an application session
Click the triangle to hide and show the session toolbars for the application
sessions, as shown in Hidden Session Toolbars.
You can manage all your application sessions at once from the links at the top of the Applications area. You use these links as follows:
Click Suspend All to suspend all running applications
Click Resume All to resume all suspended application
Click Cancel All to end all running or suspended applications
Applications can have one of three resumability settings.
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Resumable applications are useful for the following reasons:
Applications that take a long time to start can be left running, even after you have logged out of SGD.
You can leave applications running while you travel.
You can easily recover from browser or other crashes.
If you click the Edit button in the Applications area of the webtop, you can change your settings.
On the Edit Groups tab, you can “personalize” your webtop by arranging your applications into groups. You decide how and when the groups display. Groups are useful for keeping similar applications together or for hiding applications not used very often. Only an SGD Administrator can add an application to, or remove an application from, the list of applications that are available on a user’s webtop.
On the Client Settings tab, you can configure the settings for the SGD Client, for example the proxy server to use, or whether the list of applications you can run displays in the desktop Start or Launch menu. The settings are stored in a profile on the client device.
You must log out of SGD before closing your browser. This enables SGD to shut down any applications that need not run any more and stop the SGD Client.
If you close your browser without logging out, you are not logged out of SGD, because the SGD Client is still running. If you accidentally close the browser, you can only display the webtop by logging in again.
To log out of SGD, click the Logout button on the webtop and click OK when prompted for confirmation.